Search

Enter terms

Retain current filters

Search results

1. Sydney residents question gas company

   well head,” said Needham. CSG mining is expanding across NSW and Queensland. Water usage, and waste ... water produced by projects, is a key concern for many residents and environmental groups. Needham said ... the amount of water used during production “depends on scope of drilling, but for a single in-seam ...

2. Are QLD and NSW the new gasland?

   changed to allow petroleum and gas exploration in state conservation and drinking water catchment areas. ... does not have to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act under an exemption granted by the Bush ... begin mining for gas under the Sydney water catchment. The letter acknowledged that damage to the ...

3. Governments back coal seam gas industry

   blow-out. The well sprayed water and methane up to 90 metres in the air on a farming property west of Dalby ... underground water supplies. The NSW government's 60-day moratorium does not affect exploratory licences ...

4. Pilliga forest new CSG battlefront

   infrastructure, such as a water treatment facility and access roads. ESG is already carrying out smaller scale gas ... its natural values.” June 17, 2011 884 Coal seam gas waste water pond in Pilliga state forest. Photo: ...

5. Inner-west residents challenge coal seam gas mining

   said. Both waste water from the drilling process as well as air contamination are potential issues, ... Redmond said. “The water is not just salty, it has a lot of chemicals including Volatile Organic ...

6. Mining companies launch ad campaign to defend coal seam gas

   Waters responded to the ‘We want CSG’ campaign in a September 5 statement. “APPEA are saying that this ... are saying they want coal seam gas,” Waters said. “A recent Galaxy survey of over a thousand people ...

7. Radical art from the grassroots

   sculpture titled “Blue Gold” as a commentary on selling Australian fresh water overseas. Made entirely from ... recycled poly water piping and held together with cable ties, the work comments on a variety of issues, ... including the commodification of natural elements like water. As the sun set over Addison Road, the Fuji ...

8. Egypt: Protesters take to the streets to demand democracy

   they walked through the city. However, screams were heard as the police fired water at the crowd. ...

9. Frontline of a coal seam gas war

   and water from ruin at the hands of Queensland Gas Company (QGC), part of the British Gas group. Rural ... Unfortunately, Hutton was not joking. “Our land, our water, our future, that's what we are fighting for,” he ... threatens to destroy not only bushland, but vital agricultural land. It threatens to poison and waste water ...

10. Protest halts work on NSW’s biggest coal seam gas project

    threatened species, and water expose the fact that this is not a clean, green development. “Eastern Star’s ...

11. Britain: Students challenge fee rise, cuts

    demonstrators to confine them to a space, often for hours, without access to food, water or toilets. Kettling ...

12. 'A huge victory': US workers beat Rio Tinto

    Tinto's attempts to water down workers' conditions and deunionise workforces around the world. ...

13. Coal seam gas plans for St Peters never had permission to go ahead

    and treatment of associated water, and the use of hydraulic fracturing. After months of scrutiny in ...

14. Why feminists and the left must defend Julian Assange

    the media, politicians, or water-cooler conversations to condemn Assange or decide his fate, or that ...

15. Bradley Manning deserves to be free

    by 12 foot cell with the light on at all times. In the cell is a bed, a water fountain and toilet. ...